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efuted all claims, once more saying it borders on media sensation (in a letter to the weekly Time magazine). A visual anthropologist named Peter Biella studied the Àxe fight' and could find nothing wrong which would harm the integrity of the late Tim Asch. He in fact claims that Asch always remained critical of Chagnon's obsession with YanomamoÈ violence. Gregory Finnegan (Harvard University) a close colleague and former student of Tim Asch at Brandeis University, and who knew most of Asch's films on the YanomamoÈ , concludes as follows: Èveryone in the YanomamoÈ -studies communities is working with notions of human nature and global systems that affect how they view each other's portrayals of the YanomamoÈ . Since there is no answer without a question, and theories, even implicit ones, determine questions, Chagnon and all of us necessarily ``cook'' our ``raw'' data in the act of acquiring it. But that's not the same as ``cooking the data'' in the ways that Tierney is said to allege'. From his home base university at Ann Arbor, Michigan University officially defended the late Dr Neels's academic scientific integrity and could find nothing to support the Tierney accusations. In the same vein historian Susan Lindee, anthropologist Alan Fix and Jeffrey Long (a student of Neel) have sought to refute most of the allegations against Neel. Thus, the last word has not been spoken. One can only assume that once the book is on the market more responses will magnify and more `cans of worms' will be opened. The problem is that neither Neel nor Asch is alive to tell their stories. 68 ISSN 0256±6060±Unisa Lat. Am. Rep. 16(2) 2000
UCLAS Reports Cultural studies highlighted at Comparative Literature Conference in Brazil by ZeÂ lia Roelofse-Campbell Head, Unisa Centre for Latin American Studies Salvador, the capital city of the State of Bahia in Brazil, hosted the VII Congress of ABRALIC * (Associac,aÄ o Brasileira de Literatura Comparada ± Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature) from 25 to 28 July 2000. I participated and delivered a paper at the conference, thanks to a grant from Unisa's Research and Bursaries Committee and the Division for Social Sciences of the National Research Foundation. The scale of the conference was shown by the fact that more than 1 300 papers were presented. The majority of participants came from the host country, Brazil. As Brazil has 27 States (provinces), there were representatives from different regions and backgrounds. The other countries represented were: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, India, Italy, Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, South Africa (represented by myself), Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela (18 countries in all). This is unsurprising, given that the biennial Congress of Abralic is the most important and allembracing event in the area of comparative literature and criticism organized in Brazil. It serves as a forum for dialogue between Brazilian, Latin American, North American, European and other researchers in the field coming to grips with topical issues and problems. The aim of this particular congress was to debate important contemporary issues, such as identity; as a consequence of globalization, identities can be said to be less monolithic, leading to fragmentation. The main theme of the congress ± Terras e Gentes (Lands and Peoples) ± was set against a background of the end of the millennium, namely a time of stocktaking, evaluations and prospects. This was further emphasized by the commemorations surrounding the 500th anniversary of Brazil's `discovery', and discourses on the nation-state in a context of economic ÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐ * ABRALIC is affiliated to ICLA (International Comparative Literature Association). The 13th ICLA Congress took place in South Africa, at Unisa from 13 to 19 August 2000. ISSN 0256±6060±Unisa Lat. Am. Rep. 16(2) 2000 69
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